plywood 14' racer

[Pierre]

hello again,

some pix about construction of a 3 mm plywood 14- footer ( ordinary plywood epowy glassed )

[Paul Jensen]

Sweet...!!!...

Do you have patterns for that......

[dennis oates]

Hi Pierre,

This has inspired me to build something very similar.  A couple of questions:

1) did you glass the interior?
2) how far forward from the stern is your fin?


Thanks....Dennis

[JeffBach]

your scarf joint on the top looks great.  You can hardly see it.  On mine I used way too much epoxy on that scarf joint. The resulting hardened mess was really hard to clean up.  Yours looks great.

[PauHanaTX]

Cool board.

Nice touch with the nautical belt and Jesus slippers too brah!

[bean]

Cool board.

Nice touch with the nautical belt and Jesus slippers too brah!

You don't get much more retro than that!  Nice post 

[OC kbar]

That is inspiring and awesome!  Hope to try this one day with my Dad.  It would be a great hobby.

[Pierre]

Hi all, sorry not to reply but I was travelling far from home...
To reply to Dennis I just epoxy coated interior, and aft of fin is about 10" to stern. I just build it from my own sketches, without any pattern or such.
the board is perfect on flat water, I won 1 local race with and finish at good places at few others. it's just a bit too heavy, and not good as downwinder because the tail is V shaped and bow is too low above water. but generally the weight is not so important except for carrying the board 

[Pierre]

I've been upgrading board: destroyed deck, removed centre stringer and replaced it by deck beams and stanchions. reduced tail Vee and rocker a bit and added a foam dome deck...

quite stoked, finished 7th in Paris SUP crossing last weekend! and board is much easier at downwind in choppy conditions with that type of deck, a lot of fun!

[Pierre]

Also built a 12'6" last october, same structure, very stiff, almost no glassing except on deck.

[jt737]

Love your 12.6 racer with its wave piercing nose, how is it to paddle?
Are your boards glassed to finish, also what weight do they come in at please?

[Pierre]

Sorry to be so late, JT...

it's excellent to paddle, it passes through chop like knife in butter and not later than yesterday I made an incredible downwind with...

board is internally epoxy coated and externally glassed wirh very light cloth ( except ordinary one on deck)

weight about 13 kg ( sorry for pound conversion...)